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Re: improved select boxes - still accessible

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Aug 20, 2012 11:30AM

Will this work for Dragon usage as well, such as saying down to activate a
keypress?

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From: "Jonathan Avila" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "Bryan Garaventa" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >; "Marc Haunschild"
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Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 10:17 AM
Subject: RE: improved select boxes - still accessible


> [Bryan wrote]
> The only way to make a control such as this keyboard accessible, is to use
> tabindex=0 on each div tag when it's selected, and to either remove
> tabindex
> or set it to '-1' for every div that is not currently highlighted, then
> set
> focus to each such div programmatically using the .focus() method every
> time
> the arrow keys are pressed.
>
> Bryan, they may be able set tabIndex=0 on the parent div and then use
> aria-activedescendant to indicate the active descendant of the widget.
>
> Jonathan
>
>